Published January, 2018
By John Lever and Johan Fischer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. -- .

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Published January, 2018
By C F Goodey, Patrick McDonagh and Timothy Stainton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. -- .

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Published December, 2017
By Wing-Chung Ho
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers. -- .

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Published October, 2017
By Markku Hokkanen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi. -- .

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Published August, 2017
By Mary Hunter, Amelia Jones and Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery. -- .

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Published August, 2017
By Tania Woloshyn and Tania Anne Woloshyn
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Published July, 2017
By Dr Tomas Macsotay, Dr Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volume's two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victim's presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden or 'pain' experienced by the watching audience.

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Published July, 2017
By Hannah Newton, Sandra Cavallo, Tessa Storey, David Cantor and Leah Astbury
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries. -- .

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Published July, 2017
By Alannah Tomkins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery. -- .

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Published June, 2017
By David Bolton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. -- .

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